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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

G. K. Chesterton

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

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